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On Wednesday, the Browns are expected to file a lawsuit to challenge the polygamy law.
The lawsuit is not demanding that states recognize polygamous marriage. Instead, the lawsuit builds on a 2003 United States Supreme Court decision, Lawrence v. Texas, which struck down state sodomy laws as unconstitutional intrusions on the intimate conduct of consenting adults. It will ask the federal courts to tell states that they cannot punish polygamists for their own intimate conduct so long as they are not breaking other laws, like those regarding child abuse, incest or seeking multiple marriage licenses.
The connection with Lawrence v. Texas, a case that broadened legal rights for gay people, is sensitive for those who have sought the right of same-sex marriage. Opponents of such unions often refer to polygamy as one of the all-but-inevitable outcomes of allowing same-sex marriage.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/12/us/12polygamy.html?_r=1&hp
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